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Psychiatry
Breno Fiuza Cruz, Salvina Maria de Campos-Carli, Amanda Margarida de Oliveira, Camila Bernardo de Brito, Zelia Menezes Garcia, Raquel Duque do Nascimento Arifa, Daniele da Gloria de Souza, Antonio Lucio Teixeira, Joao Vinicius Salgado
Summary: The study found deficits in neurocognition and social cognition in schizophrenia patients, with changes in oxidative stress biomarkers in serum being associated with impairments in neurocognitive functions.
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Psychiatry
Vijaya Lakshmi Valaparla, Ritu Nehra, Urvakhsh Meherwan Mehta, Sandeep Grover
Summary: The study found that in patients with schizophrenia, all domains of social cognition and neurocognition show significant improvement during the remission phase, except for the Wisconsin card sorting test (WCST) in neurocognition and the social perception index in social cognition.
ASIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Patricia Fernandez-Sotos, Arturo S. Garcia, Miguel A. Vicente-Querol, Guillermo Lahera, Roberto Rodriguez-Jimenez, Antonio Fernandez-Caballero
Summary: The study used dynamic virtual faces to simulate rich emotional expressions, and the results showed that these virtual faces were as effective as natural faces in reproducing facial expressions, and even more accurate in recognizing emotions. Age and gender seemed to have no significant impact on facial emotion recognition.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Roberto Pablo Gonzalez, Ingrid Tortades, Francesc Alpiste, Joaquin Fernandez, Jordi Torner, Mar Garcia-Franco, Jose Ramon Martin-Martinez, Sonia Vilamala, Maria Jose Escandell, Emma Casas-Anguera, Gemma Prat, Susana Ochoa
Summary: The study tested the usability of 'Feeling Master' as an interactive gaming tool for assessing emotional recognition in individuals with schizophrenia, showing more prevalent impairments in emotion recognition and their correlation with theory of mind deficits.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Shih-Chieh Lee, Gong-Hong Lin, Ching-Lin Shih, Kuan-Wei Chen, Chen-Chung Liu, Chian-Jue Kuo, Ching-Lin Hsieh
Summary: This study investigates the error patterns of facial emotion recognition (FER) in patients with schizophrenia. The findings suggest that compared to healthy adults, patients with schizophrenia show insensitivity to negative emotions, misrecognition of happy faces as negative emotions, misinterpretation of surprised faces, and confusion of certain negative emotions. The study suggests that interventions could be selected to improve the patients' sensitivity to negative emotions, differentiation of emotions, understanding of surprised faces, and discrimination of negative emotions.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Laura Fusar-Poli, Lotta-Katrin Pries, Jim van Os, Gamze Erzin, Philippe Delespaul, Gunter Kenis, Juryen J. Luykx, Bochao D. Lin, Alexander L. Richards, Berna Akdede, Tolga Binbay, Vesile Altinyazar, Berna Yalincetin, Guvem Gumus-Akay, Burgin Cihan, Haldun Soygur, Halis Ulas, Eylem Sahin Cankurtaran, Semra Ulusoy Kaymak, Marina M. Mihaljevic, Sanja Andric-Petrovic, Tijana Mirjanic, Miguel Bernardo, Gisela Mezquida, Silvia Amoretti, Julio Bobes, Pilar A. Saiz, Maria Paz Garcia-Portilla, Julio Sanjuan, Eduardo J. Aguilar, Jose Luis Santos, Estela Jimenez-Lopez, Manuel Arrojo, Angel Carracedo, Gonzalo Lopez, Javier Gonzalez-Penas, Mara Parellada, Nadja P. Maric, Cem Atbasoglu, Alp Ucok, Koksal Alptekin, Meram Can Saka, Eugenio Aguglia, Celso Arango, Michael O'Donovan, Bart P. F. Rutten, Sinan Guloksuz
Summary: The study found that facial emotion recognition deficits may serve as an intermediate phenotype for schizophrenia using a proxy genetic risk approach. However, no significant association was observed between facial emotion recognition and polygenic risk score for schizophrenia. Further research should investigate the genetic mechanisms underlying facial emotion recognition phenotypes trans-diagnostically.
PROGRESS IN NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Nora I. Muros, Arturo S. Garcia, Cristina Forner, Pablo Lopez-Arcas, Guillermo Lahera, Roberto Rodriguez-Jimenez, Karen N. Nieto, Jose Miguel Latorre, Antonio Fernandez-Caballero, Patricia Fernandez-Sotos
Summary: The study found that patients with schizophrenia have difficulty recognizing emotions in facial expressions, and they show a learning effect during the task, which is important for designing training interventions.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Palmiero Monteleone, Giammarco Cascino, Alessio Maria Monteleone, Paola Rocca, Alessandro Rossi, Alessandro Bertolino, Eugenio Aguglia, Mario Amore, Enrico Collantoni, Giulio Corrivetti, Alessandro Cuomo, Antonello Bellomo, Enrico D'Ambrosio, Liliana Dell'Osso, Marianna Frascarelli, Giulia Maria Giordano, Luigi Giuliani, Carlo Marchesi, Cristiana Montemagni, Lucio Oldani, Federica Pinna, Maurizio Pompili, Rita Roncone, Rodolfo Rossi, Alberto Siracusano, Antonio Vita, Patrizia Zeppegno, Silvana Galderisi, Mario Maj
Summary: The study assessed the prevalence of EPS in schizophrenia patients treated with FGAs and SGAs, and found associations between EPS and the severity of the illness, neurocognitive impairments, and social cognition deficits. EPS were shown to impact patients' neurocognitive functions, but did not directly affect their social cognition abilities.
PROGRESS IN NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Article
Psychiatry
Wenxuan Zhao, Qi Zhang, Huimei An, Yajun Yun, Ning Fan, Shaoxiao Yan, Mingyuan Gan, Shuping Tan, Fude Yang
Summary: This study found that patients with schizophrenia have impaired vocal emotion perception. Furthermore, explicit and implicit vocal emotion perception processing in individuals with schizophrenia are viewed as distinct entities. This study provides a voice recognition tool to facilitate and improve the diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Colleen C. Frank, Alexandru D. Iordan, Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz
Summary: Affective forecasting, the ability to predict future emotions, is influenced by affective working memory. This study demonstrates that the relationship between affective forecasting and affective working memory extends to predicting feelings about real-world events, such as the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. However, this relationship is not observed in a novel event-based forecasting measure.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Alejandro De la Torre-Luque, Alba Viera-Campos, Amy C. Bilderbeck, Maria Teresa Carreras, Jose Vivancos, Covadonga M. Diaz-Caneja, Moji Aghajani, Ilja M. J. Saris, Andreea Raslescu, Asad Malik, Jenna Clark, Brenda W. J. H. Penninx, Nic van der Wee, Inge Winter-van Rossum, Bernd Sommer, Hugh Marston, Gerard R. Dawson, Martien J. Kas, Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos, Celso Arango
Summary: This study investigated the role of social withdrawal in neuropsychiatric patients and found that they showed poorer performance in detecting facial emotions compared to healthy individuals. Social withdrawal was associated with higher accuracy in negative emotion detection and lower misclassification of positive emotions. These findings suggest that social withdrawal may lead to heightened sensitivity to negative emotions and impact social functioning in people with severe mental illness.
PROGRESS IN NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Shih Kuang Chiang, Wan-Yu Liu, Tsung-Ming Hu
Summary: The study found that computerized working memory training can improve working memory and emotion perception in patients with schizophrenia.
APPLIED NEUROPSYCHOLOGY-ADULT
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Michael J. Spilka, William R. Keller, Robert W. Buchanan, James M. Gold, James I. Koenig, Gregory P. Strauss
Summary: This study investigated the relationship between plasma oxytocin (OT) levels and social cognition in individuals with schizophrenia (SZ). The results showed that lower plasma OT levels were associated with decreased accuracy in facial emotion recognition, indicating a potential role of endogenous OT in social cognitive abilities in SZ. However, there was no association between OT levels and visual attention to salient facial features. These findings highlight the importance of understanding the association between endogenous OT and social cognition in SZ for the improvement of OT-focused therapies.
ACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Raymond W. C. Au, Helen N. W. Sezto, Vera W. M. Lam, Y. T. Wan, L. T. Poon, P. F. Pang, Jackson K. K. Wong
Summary: Individuals with schizophrenia or depression often experience deficits in prospective memory (PM) which can significantly impact their daily functioning. A study was conducted to investigate the effects of a Chinese version of Cognitive Compensatory Training (CCT-C-PM) on PM performance in these populations. Results showed that CCT-C-PM improved PM, especially event-based PM, suggesting it as a viable training method for enhancing PM abilities in individuals with these mental health conditions. Further research is needed to clarify the effects on time-based PM.
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Ben Lewis, Julianne L. Price, Christian C. Garcia, Natalie C. Ebner, Sara Jo Nixon
Summary: The study found that individuals with AUD showed differences in working memory performance when attending to and ignoring facial stimuli, with poorer performance observed when ignoring faces. Compared to the control group, the AUD group exhibited decreased performance when ignoring facial stimuli, conditioned on the inability to ignore irrelevant emotional face stimuli, while performance was equivalent between groups when faces were attended.
ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Masaya Morita, Shuntaro Ando, Tomoki Kiyono, Ryo Morishima, Tomoko Yagi, Sho Kanata, Shinya Fujikawa, Syudo Yamasaki, Atsushi Nishida, Kiyoto Kasai
Summary: The study found bidirectional relationships among problematic Internet use, hyperactivity/inattention, and depressive symptoms in adolescents. Problematic Internet use may be a target for improving hyperactivity/inattention and depressive symptoms in adolescents.
EUROPEAN CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Miharu Nakanishi, Marcus Richards, Daniel Stanyon, Syudo Yamasaki, Kaori Endo, Mai Sakai, Hatsumi Yoshii, Atsushi Nishida
Summary: This study investigated the long-term association between the caring status of adolescent carers in the UK and their mental health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results showed that adolescent carers reported increased psychological distress and decreased mental well-being during the pandemic. These differences were largely explained by psychosocial risk factors, including poor sleep quality, attempted suicide, low social support, and feelings of loneliness. The study suggests that adolescent carers during the pandemic require psychosocial support.
JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Daniel Stanyon, Syudo Yamasaki, Shuntaro Ando, Kaori Endo, Miharu Nakanishi, Tomoki Kiyono, Mariko Hosozawa, Sho Kanata, Shinya Fujikawa, Yuko Morimoto, Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, Kiyoto Kasai, Atsushi Nishida
Summary: Autistic traits are associated with psychotic experiences in adolescence, and bullying victimization may mediate this association. Prevention of bullying victimization may help reduce the risk of psychosis among adolescents with autistic traits.
SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Kaori Endo, Syudo Yamasaki, Miharu Nakanishi, Jordan DeVylder, Satoshi Usami, Yuko Morimoto, Daniel Stanyon, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Mitsuhiro Miyashita, Makoto Arai, Shinya Fujikawa, Sho Kanata, Shuntaro Ando, Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, Kiyoto Kasai, Atsushi Nishida
Summary: This study investigated the longitudinal association between psychotic experiences and loneliness among adolescents. The results showed a significant positive association between psychotic experiences and subsequent loneliness, suggesting that loneliness could be a sign of underlying psychotic experiences in young adolescents. However, the reverse association, between preceding loneliness and later psychotic experiences, was not significant.
SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Miharu Nakanishi, Syudo Yamasaki, Shuntaro Ando, Kaori Endo, Marcus Richards, Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, Kiyoto Kasai, Atsushi Nishida
Summary: This study investigated the association between neighborhood social cohesion and dementia-related stigma and found that greater neighborhood social cohesion was associated with lower personal and perceived public stigma. However, there was no difference in stigma levels between the pre-pandemic and pandemic periods.
JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Daniel Stanyon, Jordan De Vylder, Syudo Yamasaki, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Shuntaro Ando, Satoshi Usami, Kaori Endo, Mitsuhiro Miyashita, Sho Kanata, Yuko Morimoto, Mariko Hosozawa, Kaori Baba, Naomi Nakajima, Junko Niimura, Miharu Nakanishi, Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, Kiyoto Kasai, Atsushi Nishida
Summary: This study found a complex bidirectional relationship between auditory hallucinations and self-injurious behavior among adolescents, independent of depressive symptoms. Auditory hallucinations may serve as both a predictor for later self-injurious behavior and a manifestation of psychological distress induced by self-injury.
SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Jordan DeVylder, Syudo Yamasaki, Shuntaro Ando, Mitsuhiro Miyashita, Kaori Endo, Kaori Baba, Junko Niimura, Naomi Nakajima, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Daniel Stanyon, Zui Narita, Jason Schiffman, Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, Kiyoto Kasai, Atsushi Nishida
Summary: There is a strong link between auditory hallucinations and self-harm, with negative voices being associated with self-harm and positive voices being protective. The specific characteristics of the voices, such as their content, age, and source, do not impact the likelihood of self-harm. Focusing on negative voices may be a more useful indicator of self-harm risk than broader assessments of auditory hallucinations.
SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Simon J. C. Davies, Blanca Bolea-Alamanac, Kaori Endo, Yu Yamamoto, Syudo Yamasaki, Alex Malins, Jonathan Evans, Sarah Sullivan, Shuntaro Ando, Atsushi Nishida, Kiyoto Kasai
Summary: This study found that the distance between home and railway stations is associated with mental health symptoms in children, specifically hyperactivity/inattention. The farther the distance, the higher the likelihood of these symptoms, particularly in boys. This suggests that access to high-frequency rail transit in urban environments may have a positive impact on children's mental health.
JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT & HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Riki Tanaka, Shuntaro Ando, Tomoki Kiyono, Rin Minami, Kaori Endo, Mitsuhiro Miyashita, Syudo Yamasaki, Sho Kanata, Shinya Fujikawa, Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, Atsushi Nishida, Kiyoto Kasai
Summary: Previous studies have shown a link between dissociative symptoms and self-harm in adolescents. However, most of these studies were cross-sectional, which limits our understanding of their theoretical relationship. This study aimed to investigate the longitudinal relationship between dissociative symptoms and self-harm in the general adolescent population.
EUROPEAN CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Miharu Nakanishi, Asao Ogawa, Mai Sakai, Hatsumi Yoshii, Syudo Yamasaki, Atsushi Nishida
Summary: This study investigated the impact of dementia and the COVID-19 pandemic on the quality of end-of-life care. The results showed that although people with dementia were less likely to talk about religion during the pandemic, there was no significant difference in the overall rating of end-of-life care quality.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Masaki Kato, Kazuyuki Nakagome, Takamichi Baba, Takuhiro Sonoyama, Daiki Okutsu, Hideki Yamanaka, Ryosuke Shimizu, Tomoko Motomiya, Takeshi Inoue
Summary: This study evaluated the efficacy and safety of oral zuranolone in Japanese patients with major depressive disorder. The results showed significant improvements in depressive symptoms and demonstrated a good safety profile.
PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Miharu Nakanishi, Taeko Nakashima, Yuki Miyamoto, Mai Sakai, Hatsumi Yoshii, Syudo Yamasaki, Atsushi Nishida
Summary: This study examined the relationship between ACP initiation and depressive symptoms among home-dwelling people with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results showed that persons with professional involvement in ACP conversations had more severe depressive symptoms, while there was no significant association between ACP initiation and the quality of life of persons with dementia.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Miharu Nakanishi, Asao Ogawa, Mai Sakai, Hatsumi Yoshii, Mitsuhiro Miyashita, Syudo Yamasaki, Atsushi Nishida
Summary: This study investigated the long-term relationship between dementia, activity participation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and changes in mental health over a period of one year. Data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study in the United States, involving 4,548 older adult participants who completed two or more surveys between 2018 and 2021, were analyzed. The study found that dementia and poor activity participation were independently associated with increased prevalence of depressive symptoms and anxiety. Dementia care and support should address emotional and social needs, especially during ongoing public health restrictions.
JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Ai Ito, Fumikazu Hiyoshi, Ayako Kanie, Azumi Maruyama, Mari S. Oba, Shinsuke Kito
Summary: This study aims to evaluate the feasibility of introducing virtual reality (VR) into cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for patients with depression. It utilizes a VR-based CBT (CBT-VR) program to replace in-person sessions, with 16 sessions conducted to assess the efficacy and safety. The study is significant in improving treatment outcomes for patients with depression.
JMIR RESEARCH PROTOCOLS
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Yasufumi Tomita, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Syudo Yamasaki, Kazuya Toriumi, Mitsuhiro Miyashita, Shuntaro Ando, Kaori Endo, Akane Yoshikawa, Koichi Tabata, Satoshi Usami, Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, Masanari Itokawa, Hideya Kawaji, Kiyoto Kasai, Atsushi Nishida, Makoto Arai
Summary: This study identified urinary exosomal microRNAs that can serve as predictive biomarkers for persistent psychotic-like experiences (PLEs). The researchers compared the expression levels of urinary exosomal miRNAs between individuals with persistent PLEs and those with remitted PLEs, and identified six differentially expressed microRNAs that could predict persistent PLEs with high accuracy. Therefore, urine exosomal miRNAs may serve as novel biomarkers for the risk of psychiatric disorders.